At least 27 people are dead after a fire in an eight-storey building in a busy shopping district in the Japanese city of Osaka.
At least 27 people are feared dead after a fire broke out at a psychiatry clinic in a busy commercial building in the Japanese city of Osaka.A psychiatry clinic was located on the fourth floor of the building where the fire beganThe fire broke out on the fourth floor of the eight-storey building on Friday morning local time.
Police were investigating suspected arson, including reports that a man started the fire in the building, Kyodo News said, citing people involved in the investigation. An elderly man brought a bag into the building that leaked flammable liquid and was ignited, the Yomiuri newspaper said. An official at the city's fire department said 27 people were in cardiopulmonary arrest — a term used in Japan before death is officially confirmed — and one person was injured.
The fire broke out shortly after the clinic, on the fourth floor of a multi-storey office building, opened for business at 10am local time.Video on public broadcaster NHK showed smoke pouring out of the building's fourth-floor windows.Other floors of the building, which is near Osaka's main station in the centre of the city, were occupied by a beauty salon, a clothes shop and an English-language school, NHK said.
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